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Steve will perform at an event in Tokyo, called 'Harajuku Perfomance + 2010' in December, with collaboration with Shoko Ise.

HARAJUKU PERFORMANCE + 2010

Date: (Wed) 22nd December - 19:30~ (door open 19:00) and 23 (Thu) 23rd December - 19:00~ (door open 18:30)
Time: 19:00~ (door open 18:30)
Venue: Laforet Museum Harajuku
Ticket: 3,500 JPYen/4,000 JPYen at door (All standing)

(Wed) 22nd December
HIFANA×Daito MANABE + Motoi ISHIBASHI
Open Reel Ensemble × Braun Tube Project
Yamakawa Fuyuki
AOKI takamasa
Nomiya Maki

(Thu) 23rd December
Ise Shoko × Steve Jansen
Shibuya Keiichiro × Ikegami Takashi
Kurokawa Ryoichi
SHIMURABROS.
Hasunuma Shuta

Curator: Yasuo Ozawa (Nippon Performance/Art Institute)

Tickets are available through the following sites (in Japanese):
Ticket Pia: http://pia.jp/t/ (tel: 0570-02-9999)
e+: http://eee.eplus.co.jp

This is the clip of the event in 2008, 'HARAJUKU PERFORMANCE + (PLUS) SPECIAL'. It will be an interesting event this year too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5F_9Kj9HwQ

Event poster

Thanks very much angel-a for taking the time to post all the information about those shows. They look fascinating! I'd love to be there.

You're welcome, Serotonin. I hope they would release the work in some kinds of format like DVD or maybe screening with live music by Steve in London...!?!?

Unfortunately for Steve and for all the people who were hoping to see him at the event, he was unable to fly to Japan because of the problems the weather caused at the airports in London.

... and as you mentioned, Angel-a, it would be fantastic to see him doing his shows here in the UK for a change. As he said in an interview a couple of years ago: "The Japanese are very open to putting things together, getting people to work together, and generating a buzz, and finding the money from sponsors somehow. They always find big businesses who want to invest in the arts - I wouldn't be able, here, to string together a band and a string quartet and interesting visuals and lighting. It's a very easy place to be, to work - it's all about being productive and getting things moving and having deadlines and schedules."

It is very sad that a talented British artist such as Steve is valued much more outside his own country.

Hi there...

Maybe... well surely it´s not the best moment for Steve to travel.
Better take some days off to try and cope with it all...
Then see what to do next.